Lesson video

Hello everyone.

My name's Mrs. Riley, and I'm here today to teach you some new vocabulary.

In our lesson today, we're going to be learning six new words that all are associated with smells.

So I hope you're ready to learn some new words that hopefully will be really useful in your speaking and in your writing.

The outcome of today's lesson is to use the words reek, stench, and other rich vocabulary associated with smell.

These are our key words for today's lesson.

Let's start by practising saYing each one out loud.

My turn, your turn.

Be ready.

Noun, verb, synonym, word pair.

Well done.

So a noun is a naming word for people, places, or things.

So a smell is a noun, it's a thing.

A verb is a being, doing or having word.

Now, smells can also, we said it can be a smell, can be a noun, it can be a thing, but I could also say I can smell something which, so it can also be a verb.

It's something I am doing.

I am smelling something.

A synonym is a word that has the same or similar meaning to another word.

So when we learn new words today, it's really helpful to look at synonyms for that word because it helps us to see which words are similar to the word we're learning.

And we'll also be learning word pairs, which are words that often appear together.

In our lesson today, we have three learning cycles.

We'll first look at our first new smell word, and then in the second learning cycle, we'll look at a second new smell word.

And then in the third learning cycle, we're going to look at four smell words all grouped together.

So we'll look at the first two in a little bit more detail, and then we'll look at the other four in a little bit less detail.

So let's start with our first new smell word.

Before I tell you what this word is, I'd like you to closely examine this picture.

What's happening in this illustration? This is Brick, the hippo, and Armie the armadillo.

Can you pause the video and either have some thinking time or describe out loud what is happening here? Well done.

In this picture Brick is eating what looks like a raw onion.

Now, I don't know if you've eaten raw onion, but it's got a very strong, it's got a very strong taste, but also quite a strong smell.

And it looks like after he's bitten into this raw onion, he's speaking and we can see that it's like his breath looks green and rancid, and it looks like it's got, you can see there's some fish bones and a skull and crossbones in there.

And Armie has sort of leapt off his chair in shock because this smell of Brick's breath is so strong.

So let's find out what this word is.

Reek, my turn, your turn.

Reek.

Well done.

I wonder if you've heard this word before.

So reek is a verb.

It's a doing word.

It means stink or smell like the worst breath.

Other forms of the verb are reeked or reeks.

Because it's a verb, we've got different tenses.

We can also use it as an adjective, reeking or a noun, reek.

Brick's breath reeked so Armie jumped back in disgust.

So in that example of sentence, it is a past tense verb.

Brick's breath reeked.

It's something that the Brick's breath is doing.

It reeked, so it's a verb, but we could say the reeking breath made Armie jump back in disgust where reeking would be an adjective.

The reeking breath.

Or we could say the a noun reek.

So what is that reek? What is that bad smell? So these words are synonyms of reek, stink, smell.

The sewage spill caused the entire town to reek with an unbearable stench.

These are word pairs of reek, the rubbish reeked, breath reeked, the clothes reeked, the place reeked, the swamp reeked, and the sewer reeked.

Now you might notice that all of these are in the past tense form of this verb, the rubbish reeked.

We could also put this verb in the present tense.

And this would look like this.

The rubbish reeks, the breath reeks, the clothes reek, the place reeks, the swamp reeks, or the sewer reeks.

So these are in the present tense.

So I would now like you to pause the video and read these word pairs out loud just like I did.

Off you go.

Well done, let's check what we've just learnt.

Which of these words is a synonym for reeks? Is it A waste, B aroma, or C stinks? Pause the video while you think about your answer.

Well done.

The correct answer is C.

Stinks and reeks are synonyms. They have a similar meaning.

Okay, so it's time for our first task in today's lesson.

For this task, you have a word map with the word reek in the middle.

Around the word reek are either synonyms of reek or word pairs of reek.

First, I would like you to find the synonyms, and when you find them, I'd like you to circle them.

Then I would like you to draw lines from the word reek up or across or down to each word pair.

And as you do that, perhaps you could practise reading the word pairs out loud.

So let's take a look at a sentence to help you.

The sewage spill caused the entire town to reek with an unbearable stench.

Now, if the word is a synonym, you might be able to take out the word reek and replace it with a synonym.

So if you are unsure, for example, if you thought, oh, rubbish.

Is it a synonym or a word pair? You could try putting it in that sentence.

The sewage spill caused the entire town to rubbish with an unbearable stench.

That doesn't sound right.

So I think that must be a word pair.

Now I'll try smell.

The sewage spill caused the entire town to smell with an unbearable stench.

That sounds right.

So that makes me think that could be a synonym.

So there's a trick to help you if you are unsure.

So pause the video now while you complete this task.

Excellent, well done.

Let's go through the answers together.

The synonyms of reek are, smell, stink.

The word pairs, word pairs are rubbish, clothes, place, swamp, sewer and breath.

So these are all things that can be described as reeking.

So for example, we might put it in the past tense, the rubbish in the kitchen reeked.

Or we might put it in the present tense.

The swamp reeks.

So all of these are word pairs.

Okay, we're now going to look at our second new smell word.

The first one was a verb reek.

I wonder what the second one will be.

Ooh, have a look at this picture.

What is happening here? We've got Armie and we've got Yin and Yang.

Could you pause the video and describe what's happening in this picture? Well done.

Well, Armie looks like he has had a little bit of an accident in this picture, and there are lots of flies buzzing around.

Maybe they've been drawn in by the smell.

And we can see that Yin and Yang are wearing yellow protective suits and they are using kind of tools to try to clean Armie and remove his dirty soiled clothes.

So poor old Armie looks a bit embarrassed because of the smell that is surrounding him.

So let's find out what this word is.

Stench, my turn, your turn.

Stench.

Lovely.

Stench is a noun.

It's an odour or stink like the smell of someone who hasn't showered in a while.

So the last word we looked at, reek is a verb.

It's a doing word, something that something might do.

It might smell or reek, whereas this stench is a noun, it's a thing, it's an odour or a stink.

So you might say something like, what is that awful stench.

So stench is a noun.

And if this word is a noun, I wonder if you could quickly have a think, what will the synonyms be, so the words that have a similar meaning, and what word class will the word pairs be? Have a bit of thinking time.

Maybe you could shout out what you think the synonyms will be.

And maybe you could shout out, what do you think the word pairs of this noun will be? Hmm, we'll see if you're right in a second.

So the synonyms of stench are smell, odour and stink.

The overpowering stench coming from Armie had to be dealt with at once.

So we could also say the overpowering smell coming from Armie or the overpowering odour coming from Armie.

And these words are nouns.

The main word we're looking at stench is a noun.

So the words that have a similar meaning are also nouns.

These are the word pairs.

An awful stench, an unbearable stench.

If we can bear something, it means we can kind of cope with it.

So if it's unbearable, it's almost like it's such a bad stench or smell, we can't cope with it.

Unbearable stench, a foul stench, and a rotting stench.

So something that's rotting or decaying.

So as hopefully you might have noticed, all of these word pairs, awful, unbearable, foul, and rotting are adjectives, which makes sense because nouns and adjectives are often paired together because adjectives describe nouns.

So just like we did earlier, can you pause the video and read these word pairs out loud? Well done.

We've got four more word pairs.

An overpowering stench, a sickening stench, a smell so bad, it almost makes you feel sick.

A burning stench, a smell so strong, it almost as if it's burning your nostrils and a nauseating stench.

Nauseating and sickening are very similar.

If you feel nauseous, you feel sick.

So if it's a nauseating stench, it's a stench that's making you feel sick or nauseous.

So again, could you pause the video now and read these word pairs out loud? Well done.

So which of these words is a synonym for stench? Is it A, odour, B, sickening, or C, overpowering? Pause the video while you think about your answer.

Well done, the correct answer is A, odour is a synonym for stench.

An odour and a stench are both nouns.

Okay, so another word map.

This time with stench in the middle.

First, could you circle the synonyms and then can you draw lines to the word pairs? Here's a sentence to help you.

The overpowering stench coming from Armie had to be dealt with at once.

And remember that trick of replacing the word stench with a synonym that might help you.

So pause the video now and have a go at this task.

Well done, let's go through the answers together.

So the synonyms first are stink, smell, and odour.

The word pairs are awful stench, foul stench, unbearable stench, overpowering stench, nauseating stench, burning stench, sickening stench, and rotting stench.

All of these adjectives are quite negative, aren't they? Okay, I would now like you to write a sentence using either the word reek, which remember is a verb or stench, which is a noun.

Use the word pairs to help you.

Here are the word pairs for reek, and I've put the other versions there.

You might use reeked or reeks, and here are the word pairs for stench.

So you might start off by picking which word.

So maybe you might pick stench.

Then you might choose your word pair, nauseating stench.

And then you can think about your idea for your sentence.

Ooh, what might be a stench that might make me feel sick? And then you can think about which character you are going to write about or which person.

Maybe you might use one of the Mrs. Wordsmith characters like Armie or Brick.

And once you've come up with your idea for your sentence, you might say it a few times, write it, and then go back and read it and check it.

See if you can improve your sentence.

So the word pairs are going to help you to use either of these words really appropriately and effectively.

So pause the video now and good luck writing your sentence.

Well done.

Let's look at an example sentence together.

Does this sentence use stench correctly? A sickening stench rose from the toilet, making anyone who smelled it feel ill.

So straight away I can see I've used a word pair, sickening stench.

So I know I've used this word correctly because I've used one of the word pairs.

There I've added here in this sentence, a non-finite clause making anyone who smelled it feel ill.

And that's some extra detail that shows how sickening and strong the smell is.

I could have just done my main clause, which is a sickening stench rose from the toilet.

Full stop.

My sentence could have ended there.

But to try and really exaggerate how bad this stench is, this smell is, I've done a comma instead and added a non-finite clause making anyone who smelled it feel ill.

Really exaggerating how sickening this stench is.

So maybe that's something you might try and do in a sentence you write using a non-finite clause, which is a clause, which has a comma after the main clause.

And it's got a verb, which is making in this sentence, ending in I-N-G.

Well done for writing your own sentence.

And perhaps you could quickly pause the video and just check how effective is your sentence.

Is there something you could add to exaggerate how bad a stench is or how badly something is reeking? Perhaps you could pause the video now.

Okay, well done.

It's time to look at our other four smell words.

So first, look at these pictures, think about what's happening in each one.

And you could even try to predict what each word might be.

Pause the video while you complete that now.

Well done.

So first of all, we have got Oz.

Her whole is inside this lovely pink flower, and she looks like she is really enjoying the smell of it.

This word is fragrance.

It's a noun, it's a sweet smell or perfume, like the odour of delicious herbs or exotic flowers.

So an odour is just a smell.

And often we might think of odour as being a bad smell, but in this example, it's like, it can be an odour of delicious herbs or exotic flowers.

So it's just really a smell and it can be a good or a bad one.

So fragrance.

Fragrance, it's a noun.

Not to be confused with the word fragrant, which is an adjective.

You might say the fragrant perfume smells delicious.

Fragrant would be an adjective describing the perfume.

Or you might say the lovely fragrance smelled lovely.

So can you see that nuance there? The fragrant smell, fragrant is an adjective, but in this sense, in this, if we were to say the fragrance smelled lovely, the fragrance is the thing, it's the noun.

It is a sweet smell or perfume.

Okay, the next one is odour.

That word we were just discussing also a noun, a thing, it's a smell or stink, like the fumes from someone's armpit.

So in this we can see that it's quite negative, a smell, but well, a smell could be positive or negative.

A stink definitely sounds negative.

But we can see from that example before that odour is a smell and we can then decide whether it's positive or negative by the way we describe the odour.

In this picture, it looks like Brick's armpits are really smelly and it's causing everyone to kind of fall back in disgust.

So in the odour in this picture, coming from Brick, I'd say is definitely a bad odour, a bad smell.

Here we've got whiff, also a noun, a thing.

It's a sniff or trace like the smell of your favourite pie, wafting through the air.

Can you see Grit holding a pie? And Oz almost look like, looks like she's hypnotised by the smell or the whiff or trace of this pie that she can smell.

And finally we've got Grit following a scent, which is also a noun, a smell, or a aroma, like the particular smell that someone leaves behind.

Okay, so four new words, fragrance, odour, whiff and scent.

All of them are nouns and all of them are a different way of describing a smell.

Okay, so let's check what we've just learned.

Could you match the noun to the correct image? Whiff, fragrance, scent, and odour.

Which noun matches which image? Pause the video now.

Okay, well done.

So first whiff is this one here where Oz can smell a whiff of that delicious pie.

Fragrance is that lovely smell that Oz is inhaling from the flower.

Scent is what Grit is following, that smell or scent, which is maybe a trace of the smell that someone's left behind.

And odour can be good or bad.

In this picture, it's a bad odour coming from Brick's armpits.

Okay, so for each of these words, we're going to do a word map.

Now, because we've got four of them to do, we're going to go through them with a little bit more speed than last time.

You, for each one, need to first circle a synonyms that's gonna help you to understand this word a bit better because synonyms have a similar meaning.

And once you circle the synonyms, I'd like you to draw lines to the word pairs.

For each of these word maps there'll be a sentence to help you.

Oz followed the distinct whiff of Grit's famous plum pie as her mouth drooled.

So could you pause the video now while you first find the synonyms and circle them and then draw lines to the word pairs of whiff.

Off you go.

Well done.

So the synonyms of whiff are smell, sniff and trace.

The word pairs are a delicious whiff, like a delicious whiff of pie, a faint whiff something that's not that noticeable, it's quite faint.

The slightest whiff, again, I could smell the slightest whiff of bread baking in the oven, but it's not very strong.

A stale whiff.

So imagine if there are clothes that have been in a drawer that hasn't been opened for ages, and you open up the drawer, there might be a stale whiff coming from those clothes.

A distinct whiff.

If something is distinct, it is unique or easily recognisable.

So a distinct whiff perhaps you might, they might say, ah, there's the distinct whiff of something that they know that smell really well.

And occasional whiff.

Perhaps you might be sitting on a beach and there might be an occasional whiff of some fish and chips coming from a fish and chip shop close by.

Okay, well done.

So let's take a look at our next word map.

This time odour.

The strong odour from Brick's armpits was so disgusting that no one dared to tackle him.

So as before, could you first circle the synonyms and then draw lines to the word pairs.

This time for odour, pause the video now.

Well done.

So the synonyms for odour are smell, stink and scent.

The word pairs are sweet odour, strong odour, unpleasant odour, foul odour, offensive odour.

If someone offends you, it, they might say something that's upset you.

So imagine an odour that is offensive.

It's like it's upsetting you, it's that bad.

A sickly odour, a musty odour, a bit like those musty clothes in that drawer that hasn't been opened for years.

And a strong odour.

So we can see that we've got a nice word pairs.

A sweet odour, sweet is quite a positive adjective, but lots of these unpleasant, offensive, sickly are quite negative words.

So odour is often described quite a negative smell.

Okay, fragrance.

Here's the word, set word in a sentence to help you.

Oz happily inhaled the sweet fragrance of the flower.

So again, could you circle the synonyms and then draw lines to the word pairs? Pause the video now.

Well done, let's go through the answers.

So the synonyms for fragrance are scent, an aroma and perfume.

The word pairs are strong fragrance, spicy fragrance.

Oh, maybe if someone was cooking a curry with lots of spices, you might say, oh, there was a lovely spicy fragrance.

Subtle fragrance.

If something is subtle, it's not really blatantly obvious.

So if there was a subtle fragrance of, you might smell someone's perfume and say there was a subtle fragrance of roses.

Subtle would be, it's not really strong.

If there, it was a very strong smell of roses, it might not be very nice, but it's just a subtle, a kind of gentle smell of roses.

Pleasant sub fragrance.

Another way of saying it's nice.

A floral fragrance, a fruity fragrance, a delicate fragrance, a bit like subtle, a strong fragrance and a sweet fragrance.

So a lot of our word pairs for odour were quite negative.

Things like things like sickly or foul.

Lots of these word pairs are quite positive, aren't they? Floral, fruity, delicate, subtle, sweet.

So fragrance and odour both describe a smell, but one is quite positive, fragrance, and odour is quite negative.

Okay, our last word map.

This time we've got scent.

Grit smelt the unmistakable scent of the criminal and started following the trail.

Again, could you for the last time, pause the video, circle the synonyms and draw lines to the word pairs.

Well done, let's go through the answers.

So the synonyms are smell, aroma, and odour.

The word pairs are a floral scent, a lingering scent.

If something lingers, it kind of hangs around.

So that may be someone might have had, they might have smelt.

And then when they left the room, there was a lingering scent.

It kind of hung around the smell of them.

A fresh scent may be the smell of when you get some laundry out of the washing machine.

A strong scent, a heady scent.

If something is heady, it's strong, intense, or overpowering.

If there was a heady scent, it might almost make you feel a bit dizzy it would be so strong.

A faint scent, an unmistakable scent.

A bit like in that sentence.

The criminal had an unmistakable scent, a distinctive scent.

We spoke about the word distinct earlier.

Distinctive means unique and easily recognisable.

So if you said, I smelt the distinctive scent of a person, they've got a really unique and easily recognisable smell.

And a familiar scent.

Something that's familiar is something that you are used to, you smelt it lots of times before.

For example, there might be the familiar scent of someone's perfume who you spend a lot of time with.

Perhaps your teacher might have a familiar scent because you spend lots of time with your teacher, so you recognise their smell.

Hopefully it's a good one.

Okay, well done.

So we have looked at six different word maps now, we've learned six words.

We're now going to look at an activity where we're going to try to put each of these words in a sentence.

Now all of these words, apart from reeked, are all nouns.

And they're quite similar, these words.

So you might, when you hear these sentences, think, oh, well that could be fragrance, or it could be scent, or it could be whiff.

So my recommendation to you is to, if you are unsure of one of which word goes where, leave one out and go to one where you are really sure and then you will go back to the other ones.

And hopefully they'll, because there'll be less choices, it will be a little bit easier.

So first, let me read these sentences to you.

Oz couldn't stand the awful smell of the garbage that absolutely mm.

Armie's favourite thing about summer was smelling the pleasant mm of freshly cut grass.

The overpowering mm of garlic on Oz's breath completely covered her perfume.

Stax pinched his nose to block out the sweaty mm of the locker room.

Oz paid a lot for a perfume with a floral mm of roses.

Oz loved it when the fragrant mm of freshly washed laundry filled the house.

So as I've said before, if you are unsure, you could always leave one out and come back to it if there's more than one option that works.

But also, you could look back at your word maps and look at the word pairs because that's going to really help you as well.

Pause the video now while you complete this final task.

Okay, let's go through the answers.

Oz couldn't stand the awful smell of the garbage that absolutely reeked.

Armie's favourite thing about summer was smelling the pleasant scent of freshly cut grass.

The overpowering stench of garlic on Oz's breath completely covered her perfume.

Stax pinched his nose to block out the sweaty odour of the locker room.

Oz paid a lot for a perfume with a floral fragrance of roses.

Oz loved it when the fragrant wish whiff, sorry, of freshly washed laundry filled the house.

So you might have had a different answer to me.

For example, you might have said in the second sentence, Armie's favourite thing about summer was smelling the pleasant whiff of freshly cut grass.

And then you might have said in the bottom sentence, Oz loved it when the fragrant scent of freshly washed laundry filled the house.

That's because these words are quite, have lots of them have quite a similar meaning.

So they can be used interchangeably, but not all of them.

For example, reeked because it's a verb in that first sentence, Oz couldn't stand the awful smell of the garbage that absolutely reeked.

The garbage is doing the reeking.

It's a verb.

So in that sentence, there was only one choice.

So well done for completing all of those activities today.

And let's summarise what we've learned.

So we've learned six new words associated with smell.

Reek is a verb.

It means to stink or smell, like the worst breath.

Stench is a noun.

It means an odour or stink like the smell of someone who hasn't showered in a while.

Whiff is a sniff or trace like the smell of your favourite pie wafting through the air.

Odour is a smell or stink, like the fumes from someone's armpits.

Fragrance is a sweet smell or perfume, like the odour of delicious herbs or exotic flowers.

And scent is a smell or aroma like the particular smell that someone leaves behind.

All of these words are nouns apart from reek, which is a verb.

And we can see that they are all, even though they are all smells, well apart from reek, all of these nouns are smells.

They're all used in slightly different ways and hopefully the word pairs will help us to use these words really appropriately moving forwards.

So well done for all your hard work today.

You have achieved a lot and I hope you feel really proud of yourselves and I hope that these six words we've learned today are very useful in your speaking and in your writing.

Hopefully I'll see you for some more learning another time.